Further, the real problem is likely the system design, and not so much the implementation language.
Too true. That's exactly the point. Any average programmer muppet could learn COBOL if they had it put in front of them. It's not that difficult a language, as long as you have no sense of programmatical aesthetics.
It all comes down to the existing system design, which is a far more scary prospect to be stuck with.
Whoops, retract that, I had this figured out last week at the pub -- it's because of the objects's spin that you need to use a gravitational tether. Damn you, alcohol-impaired hippocampus!
Word to the wise: if you're going to actually start advertising a project, please make sure you have some binaries built for some common relevant platforms, and make sure you have some decent information online even if it's just an ugly page with screenshots or examples of what it does.
In this case, we're talking about some scripts written in Python. At least let people know this on the front page, and list the project dependancies! ie, GraphViz, or whatever.
This way, your potential users won't immediately discard it due to a lack of compelling information, and your potential (future) developers can see how far you've got and maybe get inspiration to chip in and help!
That said, this sounds like it should be a great tool for beginner or intermediate SQL users, and I look forward to throwing a few of our mammoth 12-table-join queries at for much fun.
I feel absolutely nothing about installing a pirated copy of XP SP3 on any new hardware. In fact, I fully expect Microsoft's lawyers to contact me asking for a list of all the hardware I've bought recently with Vista OEM on, so that they can give me a price difference refund for "downgrading".
And what you've said is not in any way at disagreement with what people are saying when they call this story bullshit.
Anything that causes expansion can be used to drive a piston. This can include air heated by sunlight, or really slow burning hydrocarbons. Also, I'm sure everybody has played with burning methylated spirits and such.
However, for the purposes of a combustion engine suited to road vehicles, you need decently fast (and therefore hot) combustion to make it practical.
Therefore, this "Vetrolium" is completely unsuited to the purpose, if indeed everything described in the story is accurate.
TFA: "Even after a few minutes of operation, the engine block was cool to the touch while the four-wheelerâ(TM)s exhaust pipe seemed to emit little more than warm, odorless air."
So. This fuel is oxidised thermally neutral? So what's causing the gas to expand? What's driving the pistons?
I'm not going to call bullshit on this whole story yet, but when a reporter thinks he sees crap like the above, he needs to ask WHY.
I used Opera exclusively back in the 5.x days. Since then I find the interface less and less agreeable, sorry (and all the features I enjoyed are becoming more standard, and are all easily available via extensions)
If several million people all started encrypting all of their traffic, there's gonna be a whole lot more CPU usage and therefore more power consumption going on. ThePirateBay, think of the penguins!
(Come to think of it, the consumption increase might be offset by firefox 3 raping CPUs less than firefox 2 used too:)
Cool, can't wait to have my pan-galactic neutrino-based mobile phone! Complete with 470 tons of tetrachloroethylene and a few thousand photoreceptors. Fits in your pocket!
So what, we wait until canvas v5.0? Since that's obviously not how things work in web standards terms, sorting out JIT on Javascript and 3D acceleration is simply polishing a turd.
Canvas requires a new incarnation in order to be "imaginative".
Don't take that as me knocking Processing.js - I think it's a laudable effort. I'm only saying that I can't understand how anybody could currently consider the canvas element an actual Flash rival. That's just silly.
I can't agree with you. The canvas object, as currently designed, is absolutely no match for Flash.
I've been writing software 3D engines for longer than I care to remember (since the early 90s at least). Just because engines A and B are "software" renderers does NOT make them equal.
Using canvas, I can barely match the graphics capabilities I used to have on a good software engine on a 486. Believe me, I've tried.
Flash, on the other hand, appears much more adept at actual animation, and is far less limiting.
Javascript being a rival to Flash for online graphics content
The article submitter has clearly never actually used the HTML canvas object. There's no way in HELL canvas & javascript together could ever approach the render and execution performance of Flash.
It is very handy to have though, apart, of course, from having to perform kludgery to get it working roughly in IE (by using excanvas.js to emulate the canvas object in VML).
You're an idiot. If anything is possible, then it's possible that I am both an alien, and not an alien, which is clearly in breach of possibility by definition.
Just thought I'd point out, however, that Iran still has some communications backbone that runs over satellite, so being able to reach major Iranian servers from outside doesn't *neccessarily* mean they have any functioning cables, although I'd be impressed if this were the case, because that means there's been some pretty impossibly quick re-routing going on, depending on their topology anyway.
If it turns out they are going through satellite, and that suddenly falls out of the sky, then I'm going to don the nearest metal headware.
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Yeah, it's a pretty sad state of affairs.
With even Patrick Moore (the founder of Greenpeace) realising that nuclear power (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401209.html) is the way forward, so-called "environmentalists" need to get a clue. The nuclear waste argument is almost entirely moot thanks breeder reactors, as has already been pointed out.
There are more deaths in the coal industry per measure of power produced, than in the nuclear power industry (including mining, catastrophes, meltdowns).
The fact that some environmentalists actually attempt to hinder the obviously superior, and obviously more environmentally healthy option of nuclear power is a testament to their reactionary and brainless nature.
The bottleneck is always the bus on the card itself, between the VRAM and the PCI/AGP/whatever bus. For some reason they're never designed for decent transfer speeds in that direction, which has been the downfall of many good ideas in the past (not to mention a lot of 2D graphics algorithms)
Bear in mind the poster is talking about *swap* space. That is, the hard drive. Video RAM is orders of magnitude faster, aside from issues reading back from the video bus.
In unsupervised settings, all of these activities would be considered out-of-bounds for minors.
Not to mention adults who haven't had proper training and experience.
The point is playing a shoot-em-up is hardly physically dangerous (unless you're breaking limbs with the Wiimote like some talented individuals), and if the above activities are not frowned upon but require supervision, then the parallel in the gaming context would simply imply that the parent or guardian should keep tabs on what is being played by the minor.
As the author of TFA is trying to hype the "danger" of incitement of violent behaviour due to the playing of these games, so should the same tactic be applied to the above activities regarding their more violent and unrestrained counterparts. The presence of supervision is hardly going to prevent those with violent ideas from going out and realising them.
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Further, the real problem is likely the system design, and not so much the implementation language.
Too true. That's exactly the point. Any average programmer muppet could learn COBOL if they had it put in front of them. It's not that difficult a language, as long as you have no sense of programmatical aesthetics.
It all comes down to the existing system design, which is a far more scary prospect to be stuck with.
Whoops, retract that, I had this figured out last week at the pub -- it's because of the objects's spin that you need to use a gravitational tether. Damn you, alcohol-impaired hippocampus!
Thank you for saving me the time of having to remind people of Newton's Second. I'm fairly amazed that this isn't by now completely obvious to people.
Yup, not cool.
Word to the wise: if you're going to actually start advertising a project, please make sure you have some binaries built for some common relevant platforms, and make sure you have some decent information online even if it's just an ugly page with screenshots or examples of what it does.
In this case, we're talking about some scripts written in Python. At least let people know this on the front page, and list the project dependancies! ie, GraphViz, or whatever.
This way, your potential users won't immediately discard it due to a lack of compelling information, and your potential (future) developers can see how far you've got and maybe get inspiration to chip in and help!
That said, this sounds like it should be a great tool for beginner or intermediate SQL users, and I look forward to throwing a few of our mammoth 12-table-join queries at for much fun.
Indeed :)
I feel absolutely nothing about installing a pirated copy of XP SP3 on any new hardware. In fact, I fully expect Microsoft's lawyers to contact me asking for a list of all the hardware I've bought recently with Vista OEM on, so that they can give me a price difference refund for "downgrading".
Sure, but not as fun
That's clever!
And what you've said is not in any way at disagreement with what people are saying when they call this story bullshit.
Anything that causes expansion can be used to drive a piston. This can include air heated by sunlight, or really slow burning hydrocarbons. Also, I'm sure everybody has played with burning methylated spirits and such.
However, for the purposes of a combustion engine suited to road vehicles, you need decently fast (and therefore hot) combustion to make it practical.
Therefore, this "Vetrolium" is completely unsuited to the purpose, if indeed everything described in the story is accurate.
TFA: "Even after a few minutes of operation, the engine block was cool to the touch while the four-wheelerâ(TM)s exhaust pipe seemed to emit little more than warm, odorless air."
So. This fuel is oxidised thermally neutral? So what's causing the gas to expand? What's driving the pistons?
I'm not going to call bullshit on this whole story yet, but when a reporter thinks he sees crap like the above, he needs to ask WHY.
I refuse to make puns about "hot air" :)
I used Opera exclusively back in the 5.x days. Since then I find the interface less and less agreeable, sorry (and all the features I enjoyed are becoming more standard, and are all easily available via extensions)
If several million people all started encrypting all of their traffic, there's gonna be a whole lot more CPU usage and therefore more power consumption going on. ThePirateBay, think of the penguins!
(Come to think of it, the consumption increase might be offset by firefox 3 raping CPUs less than firefox 2 used too :)
Quoting H.S.T. while having a Star Control nickname. You, sir, are my hero!
Don't huff the brown acid-kittens!
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Cool, can't wait to have my pan-galactic neutrino-based mobile phone! Complete with 470 tons of tetrachloroethylene and a few thousand photoreceptors. Fits in your pocket!
So what, we wait until canvas v5.0? Since that's obviously not how things work in web standards terms, sorting out JIT on Javascript and 3D acceleration is simply polishing a turd.
Canvas requires a new incarnation in order to be "imaginative".
Don't take that as me knocking Processing.js - I think it's a laudable effort. I'm only saying that I can't understand how anybody could currently consider the canvas element an actual Flash rival. That's just silly.
I can't agree with you. The canvas object, as currently designed, is absolutely no match for Flash.
I've been writing software 3D engines for longer than I care to remember (since the early 90s at least). Just because engines A and B are "software" renderers does NOT make them equal.
Using canvas, I can barely match the graphics capabilities I used to have on a good software engine on a 486. Believe me, I've tried.
Flash, on the other hand, appears much more adept at actual animation, and is far less limiting.
Javascript being a rival to Flash for online graphics content
The article submitter has clearly never actually used the HTML canvas object. There's no way in HELL canvas & javascript together could ever approach the render and execution performance of Flash.
It is very handy to have though, apart, of course, from having to perform kludgery to get it working roughly in IE (by using excanvas.js to emulate the canvas object in VML).
You're an idiot. If anything is possible, then it's possible that I am both an alien, and not an alien, which is clearly in breach of possibility by definition.
Very good point.
Just thought I'd point out, however, that Iran still has some communications backbone that runs over satellite, so being able to reach major Iranian servers from outside doesn't *neccessarily* mean they have any functioning cables, although I'd be impressed if this were the case, because that means there's been some pretty impossibly quick re-routing going on, depending on their topology anyway.
If it turns out they are going through satellite, and that suddenly falls out of the sky, then I'm going to don the nearest metal headware.
Yeah, it's a pretty sad state of affairs.
With even Patrick Moore (the founder of Greenpeace) realising that nuclear power (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401209.html) is the way forward, so-called "environmentalists" need to get a clue. The nuclear waste argument is almost entirely moot thanks breeder reactors, as has already been pointed out.
There are more deaths in the coal industry per measure of power produced, than in the nuclear power industry (including mining, catastrophes, meltdowns).
The fact that some environmentalists actually attempt to hinder the obviously superior, and obviously more environmentally healthy option of nuclear power is a testament to their reactionary and brainless nature.
Yeah, but William Henry was somehow involved with some of the design decisions of the 8088. It's a hardware limitation - nothing to do with the OS.
The bottleneck is always the bus on the card itself, between the VRAM and the PCI/AGP/whatever bus. For some reason they're never designed for decent transfer speeds in that direction, which has been the downfall of many good ideas in the past (not to mention a lot of 2D graphics algorithms)
Bear in mind the poster is talking about *swap* space. That is, the hard drive. Video RAM is orders of magnitude faster, aside from issues reading back from the video bus.
In unsupervised settings, all of these activities would be considered out-of-bounds for minors.
Not to mention adults who haven't had proper training and experience.
The point is playing a shoot-em-up is hardly physically dangerous (unless you're breaking limbs with the Wiimote like some talented individuals), and if the above activities are not frowned upon but require supervision, then the parallel in the gaming context would simply imply that the parent or guardian should keep tabs on what is being played by the minor.
As the author of TFA is trying to hype the "danger" of incitement of violent behaviour due to the playing of these games, so should the same tactic be applied to the above activities regarding their more violent and unrestrained counterparts. The presence of supervision is hardly going to prevent those with violent ideas from going out and realising them.